Scholars Quotes

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.